Yufeng Dong is the first researcher to work on stem cells inside the new Upstate Stem Cell cGMP Facility.

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The stem cell clean room that opened Wednesday at the University of Rochester Medical Center is a critical step toward therapies that, among other things, may one day help to restore the crushed limbs of soldiers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan, university officials said.

All sorts of now-incurable illnesses and injuries - from cancer to severed spinal cords - may be the eventual beneficiaries of work done at the new Upstate Stem Cell cGMP Facility, located at UR's DelMonte Neuromedicine Research Institute.